Improvement in moth-repellent paper



SEYMOUR CRANE, OF DALTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN NiOTH-REPELLENT PAPER.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 124,336, dated March 5, 1872.

Specification of a new and useful Improved Paper for the Extermination of Moths, invented by SEYMOUR CRANE, of Dalton, in the county of Berkshire and State of Massachusetts.

This invention consists of paper having tobacco or cedar-wood, or both of them, applied to its surface in such manner as to adhere thereto. The paper thus prepared may be used as a lining under carpets or a lining for trunks or drawers, or may be laid under or between or applied as a wrapper for clothing, and forms a very cheap and convenient eX- terminator for moths, which is so effective that no mot-h can live in contact with or near it.

The cedar-wood, before application to the paper, may be in the form of sawdust or in a iibrous state, to which it may be reduced by any suitable lneans. The tobacco may consist of the leaves or stems of the plant cut or broken into tine grains, pieces, or dust. Either or both of them may be applied to the surface of the paper while the latter is in process of manufacture and still in the wet or pulpy state, in which the tobacco or cedar-wood will incorporate themselves with its surface fibers or may be applied after the paper has been more or less dried by coating it with paste or gluten to produce their adhesion. If no glutinous or sticky substance be used in the manufacture of the paper, the cedar or tobacco, or both of them, may be applied somewhere be; tween the stuff-chest and the second pressroll. In case a cylinder machine is used in its manufacture, I prefer to sift or scatter them upon the web on the cylinder between the surface of the pulp in the vat and the concher, or scatter them on the surface of the pulp in the at. In case of a Fourdrinier machine being used, I prefer to sift or scatter them upon the surface of the pulp on the wire-cloth, so that in either case they may 'become embedded in the surface fiber of the ter it has been applied. Sheets of paper al-.

ready made might have the cedar, tobacco, or either, applied to their surfaces by sifting it or sprinkling it on them after first coating them with paste or other adhesive material by hand with a brush.

The paper prepared in this way, by applyin g the tobacco or cedar, or both of them, to its surface, is far superior to that having the materials introduced into the pulp so as to be distributed through the web as it retains more of their strength of odor, much of which is washed out and carried off with the water in forming the pulp into the web.

\Vhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-- Paper having cedar-wood or tobacco, or both of them applied to its surface in the form of dust, grains, or fibers, substantially as herein described, for the purpose set forth.

SEYMOUR CRANE.

Witnesses HENRY T. BRoWN, FRED. HAYNES. 

